Monday, July 6, 2009

With its Lundgren-esque legs and wide-eyed intensity, Christopher Titus performance hover somewhere between comedy and a scared straight lecture. His 2004 special, Norman Rockwell is bleeding, there was a search monologue unprecedented American tragedy, but his demented perspective, shaped by an abusive upbringing, both self-inflicted or involuntary, are fun mainly because he survived it. The story of drunkenly falling face first into a bonfire would not be nearly as fun if it had been told of a full-body cast also Tales of slag and less than great parents, and thus prove that a man's misery is the same man state - up .